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THBELIAS BOUDINOT Continental Congress President Signed 1790 Colonial Currency Note
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"Elias Boudinot" President of the Continental Congress (1782-83) Signed 1790 One Penny "First Presbyterian Church at Newark" Currency Note
ELIAS BOUDINOT (1740-1821). 10th President of the Continental Congress (1782-1783), Member of the Continental Congress, served in the First Congress of 1789, Signed the "Treaty of Paris" with Great Britain, ending the Revolutionary War, Member of the Committee on Correspondence, New Jersey Provincial Congress, Commissary-General of Prisoners, and in 1795 Appointed as Third Director of the United States Mint by George Washington.
New Jersey, First Presbyterian Church at Newark, (December 16, 1790), One Penny Currency Note, Signed, "E. Boudinot" President, as Church President, PCGS graded Very Fine-20. Wait Wait 1407. This rare Private issue listed and illustrated in Newman, on page 266. This scarce Church series was Printed by S. Kollock. Signed by Elias Boudinot as acting President of the Church. It is circulated and even in its appearance, yet superior to most we have seen. The signature "E. Boudinot" is fully readable, written in light brown ink. An important signature of Elias Boudinot on a rare 1790 Federal Period New Jersey privately issued Church note.
Elias Boudinot was a member of the New Jersey Committee on Correspondence (1774-1775) and the New Jersey Provincial Congress (1775). In 1777 he was appointed commissary-general of prisoners. He was a member of the Continental Congress (1777-1788; 1781-1784) and its President (1782-1783).
He signed the treaty with Great Britain to end the war. He served in first Congress of 1789; in 1795 was made the third Director of the United States Mint, and from 1816 to 1821 served as the first President of the American Bible Society.
Although he's sometimes forgotten by the history books, Boudinot is one of America's founding fathers. He served as a New Jersey Congressman, president of the Continental Congress, director of the U.S. Mint and American Bible Society's first president.
And we have him to thank, in part, for Thanksgiving as an American national holiday. Boudinot's support for a day of Thanksgiving, his dedication to public service, and his later motivation for founding American Bible Society were rooted in a passion for God's Word.
On September 25, 1789, this passion drove Boudinot to declare before the U.S. House of Representatives that prayer and thanks were due to God for America's existence. According to the Annals of Congress, Boudinot stated that he "could not think of letting the session pass over without offering an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining with one voice in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings he had poured down upon them."
Although many members of the House dismissed his proposal, Boudinot stuck by it. Almost two weeks later, President George Washington warmed to the idea.
On October 3, 1789, Washington distributed a Thanksgiving Proclamation to the Governors of the States, calling for the "institution of a national day of prayer and thanksgiving" and for "Thursday, the 26th day of November...to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be."
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